{{Short description|English politician and lawyer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Daniel Coke | image = MG RevCoke and Daniel Coke M.P..jpg | image_size = | caption = Daniel Coke, with his very distant cousin the Rev. D'Ewes Coke (standing) and his cousin's wife, by Joseph Wright, 1782 | birth_date = 17 July 1745 | birth_place = Derbyshire? | death_date = 6 December 1825 | death_place = Derby | education = Derby School, Queen's College, Oxford, and All Souls College, Oxford | occupation = barrister and Member of Parliament | parents = Thomas and Matilda Coke | children = }}
'''Daniel Parker Coke''' (17 July 1745 – 6 December 1825), was an English barrister and Member of Parliament.
==Early life== Coke was the only son of Thomas Coke (1700–1776), a barrister, and his wife, Matilda Goodwin (1706–1777). He belonged to an old Derbyshire family, the Cokes of Trusley. He was educated at Derby School, Queen's College, Oxford, and All Souls College, Oxford, graduating BA in 1769 and MA in 1772. He then studied law at Lincoln's Inn, London, where he was called to the bar in 1768.<ref name="odnb"/>
==Career== Coke practised as a barrister on the Midland circuit. In 1773 and 1774 he was in Italy where he met Joseph Wright of Derby. Wright was not the first to note on what an attractive man Coke was, and Coke visited Wright at his abode in Italy. Coke is thought to be the only person who appears in a Wright painting and who also bought one of Wright's industrial landscapes.<ref name=bennic>{{cite book|last=Nicolson|first=Benedict|title=Joseph Wright of Derby: painter of light, Volume 1|year=1968|publisher=Paul Mellon Foundation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ms09AAAAIAAJ&q=daniel|page=124|isbn=978-0-7100-6284-0}}</ref>
From 1776 to 1780 he was a Member of Parliament for Derby, then from 1780 to 1812 for Nottingham.<ref name="odnb"/>
From 1793, Coke supported the British government's policy on war with France. By the 1802 general election he was unpopular in Nottingham because of his support for the war, blamed for high food prices, and lost to Dr Joseph Birch of Preston. He petitioned against the result and in May 1803 won the new election. He fought Birch successfully again in 1806.<ref name="odnb"/> After retiring from parliament, Coke continued as chairman of the Derbyshire quarter sessions until 1818.
==Legacy== Coke never married. He died in Derby in 1825 and he has a substantial monument in Derby Cathedral.<ref name="odnb">''Coke, Daniel Parker (1745–1825), barrister and politician'' by Mark Pottle in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''</ref> Joseph Wright painted a portrait of D'Ewes Coke and his wife and his very distant cousin Daniel. This painting is now in Derby Museum and Art Gallery.<ref>[http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/MuseumsGalleries/The_Rev_DEwes_Coke_his_wife_and_a_relative.htm Rev Dewes Coke, his wife and a relative] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222023952/http://www.derby.gov.uk/LeisureCulture/MuseumsGalleries/The_Rev_DEwes_Coke_his_wife_and_a_relative.htm |date=22 December 2007 }} Derby Museum</ref>
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== External links == {{DNB Poster|Coke, Daniel Parker}} * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-daniel-coke | Daniel Coke }}
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{{s-bef|before= Colonel the Hon. Sir William Howe <br /> Robert Smith }} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Nottingham | years = 1780–1797 | with = Robert Smith 1780–97 | with2 = Captain Sir John Borlase Warren 1797–1802 }} {{s-aft|after= Captain Sir John Borlase Warren <br />Joseph Birch}}
{{s-par|gb}} {{s-bef|before= Captain Sir John Borlase Warren <br />Joseph Birch}} {{s-ttl | title = Member of Parliament for Nottingham | years = 1803–1812 | with = Captain Sir John Borlase Warren 1803–06 | with2 = John Smith 1806–12 }} {{s-aft|after= The Lord Rancliffe<br />John Smith}} {{end}} {{Derby Museum}}
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